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guiac

guiac is the alternative form of guaiac.

Meaning of guaiac

Noun

guaiac (countable and uncountable, plural guaiacs)

  1. A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces.
  2. Guaiacum (tree, wood or resin of the guaiacum tree)
  3. Guaiacol.
  4. Oil of guaiac, a fragrance ingredient used in soap and perfumery distilled from the palo santo tree.

Words formed from guiac

Questions about guiac

What is guiac the alternative form of?
Guiac is the alternative form of guaiac.

Words near guiac in the dictionary

  1. guhrls
  2. Guhu-Samane
  3. GUI
  4. Gui County
  5. Gui Xian
  6. guiac
  7. guiacol
  8. guiacols
  9. guiacum
  10. Guiana
  11. Guiana dolphin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guiac (page history and authors); guaiac (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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